The child Anghara Kir Hama was forcedto flee the kingdom she rightfully ruled, escaping the murderous wrath of her brother, the usurper, who would see her dead to secure the throne. But her years spent in a strange desert land -- honing the miraculous power called Sight -- have forever changed th...
In The Secrets of Jin-Shei, eight women pledge themselves as sisters in the name of jin-shei, the unbreakable bond, the promise that lasts a lifetime. This sisterhood shapes their lives, their country and their world. The Embers of Heaven begins four hundred years later. In eighteenth-century Sya...
Some nice imagery, and an interesting premise, but also a vague and disjointed story. I wasn't sure whether Thea's world was supposed to be a future version of our world, or an alternate version. It sounded like the Alphiri came from another world (as in another dimension-sort-of-thing), but some...
The great king Red Dynan has been slain in battle, leaving two of his blood to dispute the future of his leaderless realm: a ruthless illegitimate son determined to wear the crown—and Anghara Kir Hama, the rightful queen…a nine-year-old-girl. The life Anghara knows has ended; everyone she loved ...
Alma Alexander fuses together magic and technology in this great sequel to gift of the unmage. I love the facets of the alternate universe she creates, set in a world much like our own, yet one in which magic conexists along with modern technology with out touching. Well, except in the case of th...
Thea nudged him; he turned his head to glance back at her, and she nodded at him and at the computer as if to say, Keep going; this might need to be done in a hurry.“We come in pursuit of something that belongs to us,” the Queen said regally.Terry opened up the laptop screen and waited, his hand ...
Her housekeeper nudged the door ajar when Nhia called out an invitation to enter. “Begging your pardon, mistress,” Nhia’s housekeeper said, opening the door the merest crack, “I know it’s late, but your young friend Tai is here.” “Tai? At this hour?” Nhia said, startled. “Send her in!” The housek...
Luana and another agent were quickly gone, much to everyone else’s apparent relief, taking the white cube and the mysterious, antiquated computer tapes back to the Bureau for analysis—but that left five Bureau agents still on site—Nancy Dane, Humphrey May, two paramedics, and one dour security ty...
As always, my husband and my partner in everything, Deck, who believed in this book from the moment I first strung together a semi–coherent sentence about a nebulous idea. And then, when it became a reality, I have to call the production and publication team at Book View Café: Beta reader: Jen St...
Prove it… Aris cursed the cozy inn whose potent ale had made him utter that boast and then have his bluff called. Wyn and Allyc, the two fellow gleemen who had provoked his words, were at this moment no doubt ensconced beside another warm fire in some congenial hostelry, nursing mulled wine and l...
Or at the very least, I like the idea that they might exist, and that they still have business with us, the living. And that the business in question doesn’t always have to be something that requires scaring us to death. Back in the dawn of my publishing career, in South Africa in the mid-to-late...